<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi Liam,<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 25 Nov 2021 at 21:33, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Don't worry. You don't need to destroy your drives, or your PC. Once<br>
it has the partitions deleted, new Linux ones put on instead, and they<br>
have been formatted -- which is part of the installation process --<br>
that PC is *clean*. 100% guaranteed or your money back.<br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I might be being too cautious here, but if you are dealing with a drive with an uncertain past, shouldn't you ensure the MBR gets wiped as well? I tend to use dban to wipe such drives with dban before installing Ubuntu on them. When I install Ubuntu on such a drive, I always choose the "Wipe hard drive and install Ubuntu" option (apologies - trying to remember the precise wording of that option and failing.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">I suppose, whenever you run sudo update-grub it overwrites the code in the MBR anyway - my approach might be redundant?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Does that make sense?</div><div><br></div><div>BW,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ian</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org" target="_blank">http://www.accu.org</a><br></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br><div>-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br></div><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>